The Ask and the Answer-Adult

"Furiously paced, terrifying, exhilarating and heart breaking" – Sunday Telegraph
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...
The new edition of this tense, shocking and deeply moving novel features a brand new and previously unpublished short story, The Wide, Wide Sea. Set before the events of Monsters of Men, it is a story of love and loyalty in a divided world.